Chameleons are fascinating creatures with amazing characteristics. Their feet have opposable toes, giving them a tong-like appearance, to firmly grip branches. Their eyes move independently of each other to provide 360 degree vision. Their skin changes colour via the active tuning of a latti…
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The Bogong moth is an Australian grey-brown moth that migrates from Queensland to the Australian Alps just outside of Canberra. the word is derived from the Aboriginal word for ‘mountain’. Hence it is the mountain moth and before European settlement it was a source of nutrition for Aborigines as…
An article appeared in Volume 25, Issue 3 of Current Biology (pp 392–396, Feb 2015) describing the amazing feat that sea turtles accomplish in migrating across entire ocean basins before returning to nest in the same coastal area where they hatched. The article states, “How sea turtles accomplis…
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